STATE v. MORGAN

No. 508.

95 S.E.2d 507 (1956)

245 N.C. 215

STATE v. Vernon LeGrand MORGAN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. F. Seawell, Jr., Carthage, and Charles H. Dorsett, Troy, for defendant, appellant.

George B. Patton, Atty. Gen., and Harry W. McGalliard, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


DEVIN, Justice.

The defendant admitted that he shot and killed the deceased, but claimed that this was done in self-defense. The jury rejected his plea and found him guilty of murder in the second degree. The evidence supports the verdict and judgment.

The defendant has brought his case here for review, assigning errors in the trial which he asserts influenced the adverse verdict.

Error is assigned in the ruling of the court in sustaining objection...

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